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MIT says it won't admit hackers
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:48:10 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:28:24 -0500 To: <undisclosed-recipient:;> Subject: MIT says it won't admit hackers MIT says it won't admit hackers Business school joins Harvard in decision By Robert Weisman, Globe Staff | March 9, 2005 The dean of MIT's Sloan School of Management yesterday said Sloan will join Harvard Business School in rejecting applications from prospective students who hacked into a website last week to learn whether they had been admitted before they were formally notified. Stanford's Graduate School of Business, meanwhile, asked its own applicant-hackers to come forward and explain their actions, in a sign that the California school soon may take tougher action as well. Thirty-two applicants apparently sought an early peek at the confidential data in their admission files at Sloan, while 41 files were targeted at Stanford and 119 at Harvard. Harvard on Monday became the second victimized business school to say outright it would not admit proven hackers. The first was Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business, where one admission file was violated. Those schools, along with Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and Duke's Fuqua School of Business, all use an independent website run by ApplyYourself Inc. of Fairfax, Va., to receive applications and, in some cases, manage communications with applicants. After midnight last Wednesday, hundreds of business school admission files were targeted by computers around the globe when a hacker posted detailed instructions on a BusinessWeek Online forum. Most of the hackers saw only blank screens, though some who accessed admission files at Harvard viewed preliminary decision information. ... http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/03/09/mit_says_it_wont_admit_ha ckers/ ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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